Upcoming Courses -- Disaster Managment Emergency Preparedness (April 25 | Iowa City, IA) -- Fundamentals of Critical Care Support: Crisis Management (May 1 | Iowa City, IA)
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Upcoming Courses -- Disaster Managment Emergency Preparedness (April 25 | Iowa City, IA) -- Fundamentals of Critical Care Support: Crisis Management (May 1 | Iowa City, IA) ---
Region VII Disaster Health Response Ecosystem
Together…
… we will create strategies & identify resources to support and enhance healthcare coalition, state, and regional response plans. Our philosophy is to build ecosystems for regional disaster health system responses.
Our goals:
improve coordination and capabilities within the region
enhance situational awareness
provide novel system solutions for health system and community response
Our Ecosystem:
INCLUSIVE: Expand outside of HCW facilities to include pre-hospital, EMA, community citizens
INTERCONNECTED: Create knowledge-sharing platforms that expand the lines of communication
REDUNDANT: Develop tiered systems for healthcare surge that grow capacity and specialty care access
DYNAMIC: Evolve and align response plans to be situationally adaptive
SELF-SUSTAINING: Explore economic incentives in various sectors to develop public-private partnerships for preparedness investment
EXPLORE
Upcoming R7DHRE Events
Disaster Management Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) Course
April 30 | Iowa City, IA
Fundamental Critical Care Support: Crisis Management
Activating Your Healthcare Coalition: Lessons from Real-World Experiences
May 1 | Iowa City, IA
Highlights
Recent Webinars
“Activating your Healthcare Coalition: Lessons Learned from Real-World Experiences”
The webinar aimed to describe the importance of engaging long term care facilities, assisted living facilities, dialysis centers, home health and hospice agencies (i.e. special populations) into their coalition and other preparedness efforts and to discuss strategies to increase coalition participation and preparedness efforts from LTCs and other non-hospital agencies.
“Cases Where EMS and Toxicology Intersect"
This webinar explored critical cases where EMS and toxicology intersect, provided insight into the complex nature of toxicological emergencies, how poison centers can assist in real time, and showed examples of where these two worlds meet to maximize patient safety.
IV Fluid Disruption
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, hospitals across the U.S. are dealing with the impact of IV solution shortages due to the temporary shutdown of Baxter International's IV fluid manufacturing facility in North Carolina. The facility supplies around 60% of IV solutions used by hospitals in the U.S. every day, but Hurricane Helene has caused the plant to temporarily stop operations. The R7DHRE team has created a webpage for more information, resources, and situational updates regarding the current IV fluid disruption.
